"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Saturday, October 21, 2023
Praise
Roger Ascham (1515-1568), The Scholemaster, ed. R.J. Schoeck (Don Mills, Ontario: J.M. Dent, 1966), p. 20:
For I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.